Healthcare: The Problems Are Organizational Not Clinical.

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Healthcare: The Problems Are Organizational Not Clinical.

October 25, 2006

J Org Behavior. 2006;27(7):809-1029.

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This special issue looks at the organizational challenges to high quality and safe health care such as how errors are handled in resident education.

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